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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 257 words

There was

VEEPLANCK'S POINT, FEOJI STONY POINT LIGHTHOUSE.

no poetry in the attempts to sketch two or three of the most prominent scenes ; and I resolved, when that task was accomplished, to abandon the amusement until the warm sun of spring should release the waters from their Boreal chains, clothe the earth in verdure, and invite the birds from the balmy south to build their nests in the branches where the snow-heaps then lay.

From the lighthouse is a comprehensive view of Verplanck's Point

THE HUDSON.

opposite, whereon no vestige of Fort Fayette now remains. A little village, pleasant pastui'es and tilled fields in summer, and brick manufactories the year round, now occupy the places of former structures of war, around which the soil still yields an occasional ball, and bomb, and musket shot. The Indians called this place Me-a-nagh. They sold it to Stephen Van Cortlandt, in the year 1683, with land east of it called A]}-2)a-magh-2)ogh. The purchase was confirmed by patent from the English government. On this point Colonel Livingston held command at

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GEASSr POINT AND 'JOHN MOUNTAIN.

the time of Arnold's treason, in 1780 ; and hero were the head-quarters of Washington for some time in 1782. It was off this point that Henry Hudson first anchored the JIdf-Moon after leaving Yonkers. The Highland Indians flocked to the vessel in great numbers. One of them was killed in an afi'ray, and this circumstance planted ^the seed of hatred of the white man in the bosom of the Indians in that region.

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